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وكالة الأنباء الفلسطينية وتعرف اختصارا ب- وفا. وقد أنشأت في نيسان / ابريل عام 1972 تطبيقاً للقرار الصادر عن المجلس الوطني الفلسطيني في دورته الاستثنائية المنعقدة في القاهرة. ثم صدر قرار اللجنة التنفيذية لمنظمة التحرير ...
Lazzarini calls for supporting and funding UNRWA to enable it to …
2 days ago · GAZA, January, 18, 2024 (WAFA) – The Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), Philippe Lazzarini, called for support and funding for the agency to enable it to continue carrying out its tasks in accordance with the UN mandate granted to it. He also stressed the agency readiness to support the international response by expanding the ...
WHO plans to bring in an unspecific number of filed hospitals to ...
2 days ago · GENEVA, January 17, 2025 (WAFA) – The World Health Organization (WHO) representative for the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Rik Peeperkorn, announced on Friday that the organization plans to bring in an unspecified number of field hospitals to support Gaza’s devastated health sector. In a press ...
Presidency affirms position on immediate Gaza ceasefire, full …
2 days ago · RAMALLAH, January 17, 2025 (WAFA) – The Presidency Friday affirmed its firm position of the necessity of an immediate ceasefire in and full Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip. The Presidency reiterated in a press statement President Mahmoud Abbas’ position that it was necessary to establish ...
Prime minister meets with EU High Representative for Foreign …
2 days ago · BRUSSELS, January `7, 2024 (WAFA) - Prime Minister, Mohammed Mustafa, met on Friday with the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Kaja Kallas, in Brussels, where they discussed the importance of pursuing a political track alongside the humanitarian, relief and reconstruction efforts immediately after the cessation of Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip.
PM Mustafa stresses the need for political path to end occupation
2 days ago · BRUSSELS, January 17, 2025 (WAFA) – Prime Minister Mohammad Mustafa Friday stressed the need for a political path conducive to ending the Israeli occupation of the territories of the State of Palestine. Prime Minister Mustafa made his remarks during a meeting with his Belgian counterpart ...
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Five civilians killed and others injured in Israeli airstrikes in ...
2 days ago · GAZA, January, 18, 2024 (WAFA) – Last night, five citizens from one family were killed in an Israeli occupation forces' shelling in the southern Gaza Strip. Medical sources said that a citizen from the Al-Qudra family, his wife and their three children, were killed in an occupation shelling that targeted a tent sheltering displaced people in the Mawasi area of Al-Qarara town, near Al-Hedaya ...
Following Gaza ceasefire agreement, Israeli warplanes bomb …
4 days ago · GAZA, January 16, 2025 (WAFA) – Despite the ceasefire agreement that was announced in the Gaza Strip, which is scheduled to go into effect next Sunday, a number of Palestinian civilians were killed and injured on Thursday afternoon after the Israeli occupation warplanes bombed a shelter for the displaced people in …
About Us - WAFA Agency
Oct 7, 2023 · About Us. Pursuant to the decision adopted by the Palestinian National Council in its extraordinary session, held in Cairo in April 1972, the Palestine Liberation Organization’s (PLO) Executive Committee issued a decision establishing the Palestinian News & Information Agency (WAFA) on June 5, 1972.